Very Good, Jeeves
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
[First UK Edition.]
FIRST UK EDITION IN FULL MOROCCO WITH SLIP-CASE
Published: Herbert Jenkins, [1930]
Stock code: 49866
Price: £870.00
8vo., First Edition thus; elegantly bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, original cloth backstrip and front panel mounted on new and separate leaves at front, custom-made slip-case with patterned lining, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
With 8pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. The third short story collection featuring Wooster and Jeeves, presenting eleven immortal tales including 'Jeeves and the Love that Purifies' and 'The Indian Summer of an Uncle'. The dedication of the work to Oppenheim and the Preface are present here for the first time. The US title of 'Tuppy Changes His Mind' becomes ' 'The Ordeal of Young Tuppy'. Jasen 43a; McIlvaine A42b.